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Glad you found a method that works for you. Personally I don't care for the idea of intentionally putting a burr/foiled edge on the blade, but that's just me. Long as you're happy with the results...

Well, some of us have to work on calibrating our thumb pads.

Or for those in the position I'm in, with the calloused and dead nerve endings of a mechanic, calibrating that soft meat between the...

Judging by history...not this guy lol.

Agreed, and that is why the shave test should always be the guide and definitive factor. If it shaves, let well enough alone.

This is true. But the foil to that is, if I see something that catches my eye at high magnification, then I drop back down and look at the same spot under 20x. Now I see something amiss that didn't...

I could be wrong, but I would imagine there would have to be some sort of visually identifiable flaw that kept that razor from shaving 'right.' The fact that I couldn't identify it at 30x, and again...

Sometimes. I actually just went through a bit of an issue the other day. Touched up a Germania Cutlery Works that was shaving A-OK when I set it aside a few months back. Well, it didn't look bad...